books.google.com - The understanding of the soul in the West has been profoundly shaped by Christianity, and its influence can be seen in certain assumptions often made about the soul: that, for example, if it does exist, it is separable from the body, free, immortal, and potentially pure. The ancient Greeks, however,...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Soul_of_the_Greeks.html?id=9WbS8Y1FeMgC&q=poetic&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Soul of the Greeks